Henry Fielding

First published in 1989, Henry Fielding is a biography presenting a fresh interpretation of Fieldings life and thought. Using newly discovered information, including new facts, three hitherto unknown pictures of Fielding drawn from life, documents, manuscripts, and many crucially important and engrossing new letters, Martin C. Battestin the foremost Fielding scholar illuminates every aspect of Fieldings life and work. Fielding and the life he led in the West Country, at Eton, at the University of Leyden, and in the theatres and brothels, sponging houses and police courts of London make for fascinating reading. This authoritative and timely biography will appeal to all those interested in the society and literature of eighteenth-century England.